Meanings
present singular third person uncases · participle present uncasing · participle past uncased · past uncased
- intransitivetransitiveTo strip (someone); to undress.
Sancho Panza seeing the fryar on the ground, leaped from his ass with great agility, and beginning to uncase him [translating quitar los habitos] with the utmost dexterity, two of their servants came up, and asked for what reason he stripped their master?
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8 - transitivegovernmentTo display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.
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verbget undressed
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uncase. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncase
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